{"id":1799,"date":"2008-04-13T15:46:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2008-04-19T00:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T03:29:00","slug":"more-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"More Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">M<\/span>ore<a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1800' rel=\"attachment wp-att-1800\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/screenshot-150x112.png\" alt=\"A dragonfly\" title=\"Ubuntu screenshot\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/screenshot-150x112.png 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/screenshot-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/screenshot.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> annotations on Ubuntu:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The installation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monodevelop.com\/Main_Page\">MonoDevelop<\/a> was a no-brainer: I think the .Net runtimes are installed the moment you install Ubuntu. I may port one minor application to Mono, if I have time later this evening.\n<\/li>\n<li>At one time, I despised the multiple &#8216;desktop&#8217; panels that are part of (most) Linux Windows managers. Nowadays, I&#8217;ve learnt to appreciate it: I gather that you should keep them limited to 2 or 4. I chose to keep the default set of panels (2 columns, 1 row)\n<\/li>\n<li>Generally, keyboards shortcuts follow Mac and Windows standards. You may want to see into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/coolsolutions\/tip\/2289.html\">this document<\/a> explaining all (or most) known shortcut keys known for Gnome and KDE.\n<\/li>\n<li>I heart Audacity, which was one of the first apps I installed yesterday. Getting the application to both record and play was a bit of a nuisance: Make sure to go into the preferences (Edit | Preferences) and set both PlayBack and Recording sections to the proper sound card devices. I only got this going (both recording and playback) by plainly experimenting. The default Audacity settings <em>definitely<\/em> won&#8217;t work right out of the box.\n<\/li>\n<li>Talking about sound: I haven&#8217;t settled on which mediaplayer to use. For now I use Ubuntu&#8217;s default one, which is RythmBox.\n<\/li>\n<li>The specific graphical effects (I think these come from Compiz, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/linux.ars\/2007\/09\/12\/ubuntu-technical-board-votes-on-compiz-for-ubuntu-7-10\">installed by default too<\/a>) work good on the built-in (and &#8216;low-end&#8217;) Mobile Intel 910 GMA card. So do the transparency effects, but, I have seen these in earlier Knoppix versions (which is KDE based, as you probably know) so these don&#8217;t really surprise me.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Without a doubt, you&#8217;ll run in a couple of hardware weirdness, all of them generally easy to solve: Ubuntu has started a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/LaptopTestingTeam\">LaptopTesting<\/a> wiki where contributers test and write about their experiences installing Ubuntu on older laptops. An excellent resource, particularly for the laptop (an <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/LaptopTestingTeam\/HPNC6120\">HP NC6120<\/a>) I used. In my case, the Wifi-LED didn&#8217;t reveal if it was active or not while Ubuntu had already correctly made a WIFI connection to my network. This was easily fixed and it actually changed the behaviour of the WIFI-LED: currently the LED is blinking while it tries to make a connection (or whenever it finds wireless networks). That&#8217;s even better, not?\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><em>Update 1:<\/em> For more recent versions of software, you should check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getdeb.net\/\">GetDeb<\/a>, from which you can get the latest version of UFRaw (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1783\">which I mentioned earlier<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More annotations on Ubuntu: The installation of MonoDevelop was a no-brainer: I think the .Net runtimes are installed the moment you install Ubuntu. I may port one minor application to Mono, if I have time later this evening. At one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1799\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[298],"tags":[113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}